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Exchange rate pass-through: New evidence from German micro data
Berner, Eike - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
This paper examines exchange rate pass-through into German import unit values over the last 20 years. I find incomplete pass-through to be the predominant characteristic for German imports with an average rate of 42% over three months. This result holds when considering monthly 8-digit data, the...
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Education and Labour Market Entry across Europe : The Impact of Institutional Arrangements in Training Systems and Labour Markets
Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000
Education is the main resource of young people entering the labour market for securing employment, in competing for adequate employment contracts and to fulfill their occupational aspirations. As European countries differ widely in the institutional structure of their education and training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754789
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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998
During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...
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Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe: A Multi-Level Approach
Deth, Jan W. van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001
Political interest of citizens usually is depicted as an individual attribute that can be explained by referring to the resources and skills of the people concerned. The analyses presented here are based on a critical assessment of the explanatory power of these approaches in cross-national and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754797
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Changing Labour Markets and Early Career Outcomes : Labour Market Entry in Europe over the Past Decade
Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000
The paper addresses the issue of the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market entry outcomes in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754799
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European Perspectives on Labour Market Entry : A Matter of Institutional Linkages between Training Systems and Labour Markets?
Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000
The nature of the linkage of education and training systems to the labour market is often claimed to crucially affect labour market integration in modern economies. More specifically, most current comparative research assumes a more strongly qualification-based allocation in training systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754812
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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components
Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07
In this paper we empirically test three of the most significant theories about the emergence of a European identity. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040577
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Political Involvement and Apathy in Europe 1973 - 1998
Deth, Jan van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000
Many studies have underlined the existence of clear and persistent differences in the levels of political interest among European citizens. In this report these differences and developments in political involvement and political apathy are described and analysed, and conventional explanations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553277
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National Accounts Data and Macroeconomic Analysis: A Comparative Study of the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Ireland and Slovenia
Tajnikar, Maks; Ponikvar, Nina - In: Prague Economic Papers 2006 (2006) 2, pp. 135-155
economy and compared with the macroeconomic development in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Ireland in two periods of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036539
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Macroeconomic Aspects of Structural Labor Market Reforms in Germany
Dovern, Jonas; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …
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